Main Event Lap Data By Position

In the table above, you see the ten riders with the most laps led in Premier class Supercross since 2003. Eli Tomac became the first rider to cross over 1,000 in that time frame but Ken Roczen is hot on his heels. Roczen recently announced he will be racing in 2027 and will only need 16 laps led to reach 1,000 and 93 to equal Tomac.

Roczen is now the rider with the most active laps led but does not have the most wins. Cooper Webb's 512 laps led have yielded 31 Premier class victories, three more than Roczen's 28 despite leading 472 less laps than the German.

Chad Reed takes the top spot here as he is the only rider with over 1,000 laps in the catbird seat. Taking into account his 818 laps led, he has logged just under 2,000 laps in the top two positions of a main event. Cooper Webb, second on the list, has 358 more laps in second than in first.

He leads the list of active riders and it goes to show that he is more than happy to sit back and pounce late in races to secure his victories. Webb has five main event wins where he has taken the lead in the final two laps, including individual triple crown mains. That is the most on record since at least 2003.

Eli Tomac tops his second table in this article, this time for spending the most time in third place. Ken Roczen joins him as the only two riders to feature in the top four of all three tables. Jason Anderson makes his highest appearance of these three positional charts, spending more time in third than in first or second place throughout his Premier class career.

Justin Barcia and Davi Millsaps make their first appearances of the article, Millsaps in a tie for the tenth position with active rider Chase Sexton. Barcia was 14 laps away from making an appearance on the second place table with 301 laps there. Between all three podium positions, Barcia has spun 849 laps inside the top three.

This table helps showcase riders that haven't had the longest of careers to accumulate laps led and inside the top three. Ricky Carmichael jumps right off the chart! In 90.09% of his laps on record since 2003, he was circulating in a podium position. This data set only accounts for just under half of his main event starts but still a remarkable number that shows how consistently at the top he was.

The two Ryans seem tied to the hip in a lot of Supercross stats and they are just one percentage away from each other in this category. Essentially, two out of every three laps in their career you would find them fighting inside the top three.

Jett Lawrence is another one that sticks out to me here because it is the first time he has made an appearance in this article. He only has 21 career Premier class Supercross starts so he has not circulated nearly as many laps as the rest of the riders on the list. This showcases how good he has been early in his career and may serve as a reminder to the average fan because it has been so long since we have seen him on a Supercross track.

Chase Sexton is worth an honorable mention here. He has received some flak for mistakes and inconsistency but through all of the adversity, he has spent more than half of the laps in his Premier class career in a podium position. The only active rider with a better mark is Jett.

James Stewart tops the final table of this article and arguably, the most impressive one. He led just over four out of every ten laps in his Premier class career. This stat, along with the context from the other tables in this article, show he truly raced with the "win or die trying" attitude. He has the third most laps led all time, tenth most laps in second, and then is not even on the table for laps spent in third. When he was racing, he was winning or bust.

Villopoto is just a smidge behind Stewart here, finishing in second in these two percentage tables. It makes plenty of sense as he has the best Premier class win percentage of all time, no matter the era: 44.57%. When he was racing, Villopoto was almost always at the front.

Jett Lawrence leads the charge for the active riders again here with a mark of 37.85%. It is still early in his career but his marks are matching up with the greats. He has the second best winning percentage of all time in the class with a number of 42.86%.